Latest articles by Lincoln Carpenter
It's been 729 days since the last appearance of Silksong, and the Hollow Knight fans are in a bad way
News "We're no longer clowns 'cause we don't make people laugh anymore."
After playing the deckbuilding RTS just revealed at Summer Game Fest, I believe in better, simpler realtime strategy
Paradigm shifting With Battle Aces, Uncapped Games is making strides towards an RTS renaissance.
Here's the trailer for Destiny 2's new raid, teasing The Final Shape's final showdown with The Witness
News Until weekly raid teams are farming it for cool guns, anyway.
My favorite roguelike where you can grant a chair the gift of sentience just got a UI update that makes it far more approachable
News Surreal science fantasy roguelike Caves of Qud just tore down its biggest barrier to entry.
Team Fortress 2 plummets to 'Overwhelmingly Negative' on Steam as its biggest fans stoke the righteous flames of anti-bot outrage
News You hate to see it.
Baldur's Gate 3 player gits gouda, beats game as wheel of cheese
News A dairy-ing feat of player roquefortitude.
Ultrakill dev says it's fine to pirate his game if you don't have money to spare: 'Culture shouldn't exist only for those who can afford it'
News Spreading the word about a game you pirated and enjoyed is "at worst an equal trade," Hakita says.
Summer Game Fest will focus on existing games, so don't hype yourself up for 'games that are years and years out,' says Geoff Keighley
News Expect more already-announced games than first reveals.
Team Fortress 2 players gather over 140,000 petition signatures in the latest campaign against the ongoing aimbot menace
News #SaveTF2 reemerges, hoping to pressure Valve into consistent anti-cheat support.
Destiny's famed 'lore daddy' releases a 10-hour history recap, with 12,000 people tuning in for the live premiere
News Cancel all my weekend plans. And maybe some of next week's, too.
The latest overnight survival game fixation blends a Mesoamerican theme, Bionicle masks, and the occasional Destiny guy
News Soulmask is cashing in on our latent, universal love for early 2000s Lego product lines.
Brand synergizing strikes again as Destiny 2 gets D&D crossover cosmetics, and dammit, I do kind of want the owlbear sparrow
News Illithid helmets: a dire new chapter in Warlock fashion.
Todd Howard says he's never seen anything like the '4-6x increase in daily players' the Fallout games got from the show: 'It's a really, really unique moment'
News Fallout 76 has piled on 3 million more players since December.
After trying to branch out during the pandemic, Discord's refocusing on the 90% of users who play games: 'We've recognized the need to narrow our focus'
News Apologies to all the forums lost along the way.
Riot celebrates an esports legend with its 'most generous bundles to date' and the best cosmetics will only cost you a measly $500
News "Riot chose to exploit our love for Faker for their own gain."
Helldivers 2 boss turns to the community for an Eagle stratagem brainstorming session: 'This is way more fun than a conference room'
News Give me the drone swarm I deserve, Pilestedt.
Steam's Open World Survival Crafting Fest offers tree punching at low prices
News The latest in Steam's genre sales is running all week.
The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook
Original Sins The studios behind these mega hits spent more than a decade iterating on their favorite design ideas until they went supernova.
A studio helmed by StarCraft 2's multiplayer lead wants to create an RTS 'paradigm shift' with its unannounced game
news Tencent studio Uncapped Games hopes to revitalize the RTS genre with a game that's not about "playing the piano as fast as possible."
Bold new era of Helldivers 2 lightning combat short-circuits as Arc Throwers start crashing games
News Arrowhead's identified the problem, but suggests avoiding arc weapons and Tesla towers until it's fixed.
Riot hits the development reset button for its League of Legends MMO: 'The initial vision just wasn’t different enough from what you can play today'
News The studio will be going radio silent about the project "to focus on the incredible amount of work ahead of them."
Dragon's Dogma 2 review roundup: 'An engine to create dynamic moments during every adventure'
News Praise for a rich open world, with asterisks for occasional clunkiness.
